Some of the mostproficient workers of the process adopt the easier one of coating the paper, without previous preparation, with a mixture of gum, bichromate of potass and pigment.
Quarterly examinations were to be held, but merely for the purpose of ascertaining progress; and after twelve months a cadet who was found proficient was to be discharged for three months to a sea-going training-ship.
Many of the lads become very proficient boat-sailers, and an occasional mishap is not severely visited, but taken advantage of to explain what ought to have been done.
On all sides proclamations began to be affixed; next weapons were distributed, hands were made proficient in their uses, until nothing remained but definite instruction and a swift summons for the appointed day.
The Princess Mary was specially proficient in Latin, for which she is commended by Erasmus, who, always ready to fall a victim to female charms, regarded learning as an extra embellishment.
A child becomes more and more proficient in bad writing or posture, in incorrect work in arithmetic and spelling, with practice just as truly as under other conditions he improves in the same activities.
Although each Tuskegee girl is expected to becomeproficient in one trade at least, all are required to attend the cooking classes.
Little by little he mastered their language, until he has become so proficient in it that he is now planning to write a grammar.
So the young Inupash gradually advanced until he became proficient enough to begin writing compositions.
A proficient duellist stands as full face as a man shooting a gun.
It is the hunting instinct inherent in all healthy, normal males; it means the cultivation of skill in shooting and horsemanship, and men proficient in it are ready to rise in the defence of their country.
Mr. Busch, since he was the most proficient in the detection of tricks, was to regard the total behavior of the man.
I was able to converse intelligently with the most proficient of the school, and there was little of the system that failed to commend itself to me as entitled to faith and support.
Assuredly a proficient knowledge of Biblical history has no ethical effect greater than a proficient knowledge of Greek mythology (at least of so much of it as is properly selected for school use), and we have it on the authority of Mr E.
The man who, being (perhaps unduly) proficient in it, becomes a forger, would not necessarily have remained blameless if he had continued illiterate.
The one hundred and fifteen familiar dialogues are followed by four more advanced ones in French alone, "for proficient learners to turn into English.
To which are added for a help to young beginners a large vocabulary, and a store of familiar Dialogues, besides Four curious discourses of Cosmography in French for proficient learners to turn into English.
Indeed, it would be hard to imagine how such a work could have been written except by a poet who possessed a proficient and comprehensive knowledge of astronomy.
In order to make himself more proficient in calculating astronomical tables he studied arithmetic and geometry, and learned mathematics without the aid of a master.
He became proficient in Italian and Greek, studied mathematics, and read books on astronomy.
At an early age he was occupied in observing celestial objects, making researches in optics, and acquiring a proficient knowledge of astronomy.
Under Mr. Andrew Carnegie's instruction I soon became a proficient operator, and when but a boy very easily read a telegraph instrument by sound, which in those days was considered an extraordinary acquirement.
I was at least as good a horseman as any of the rest of our batch of recruits, and probably my experience in Texas, supplemented by the lessons at Carlisle, had made me quite proficient in the regulation style of marching my horse.
Chapter 8 What You Should Know About Becoming An Excellent Subject Becoming an excellent subject follows the same general rules for becoming proficient in any other endeavor.
Certainly, one doesn't become a proficient typist, musician, actor or sportsman because he has mastered the basic techniques.
Three thousand years ago the Chinese were proficient in the art of casting bronze.
Having achieved a certain amount of experience on tour and in London, and being more or less proficient in her profession, does not, however, ensure an increase in the actor's value.
We spent much time in studying the natural sciences; we became proficient in joinery and mechanics; and there was a nice gentlemanly tone in the school.
No Ahirwar girl is married until she has shown herself proficient in this kind of needlework.
If I were to be asked how I became proficient in theatricals, I should have to say I was on the stage; and I don't wish to do that.
Must be thoroughly proficient in music and French.
You will now find the advantage of being proficient in the single vertical fall, as otherwise, your attention being distracted from the one ball to the other, you would probably not be able to catch either.
Having become proficient in the stationary balance, try to walk along the whole length of bars with the hands, still preserving the balance.
It is easy to learn, and yet it is a scientific, clever game, and one that we can well imagine would be selected as a favourite among all other card games by proficient card-players.
